Leading ‘No Case’ Committee member, Senator Ron Boswell, said
today that the One Nation High Court ruling had ‘behea ded’
the republicans’ only argument for changing the constitution.

‘Republicans have been telling us that Australia
is not independent of Great Britain and that’s why we need a new head
of state regime.’

‘But the fact is, as found by the High Court, that
Australia is not joined at the neck to Britain. Republicans should be
relieved. Constitutional monarchists should feel vindicated.’

‘The ruling means that the symbol of an Australian
Queen sits quite happily alongside the UK being a foreign power. This
is what constitutional monarchists have been saying all along.’

The High Court found that the fact “that the same
monarch exercises regal functions under the constitutional arrangements
in the United Kingdom and Australia does not deny the proposition that the United Kingdom is a foreign
power within the meaning” of the constitution.

‘The figurehead or symbol of a monarch occupies
a unique place in our constitutional framework to ensure that sovereignty
ultimately lies in the hands of the people and not a president or Prime
Minister.’

‘Constitutional monarchists are fighting to keep
this system of checks and balances and conventions which have served
Australia well. This Court decision just goes to prove what a great
independent system we have.’

‘Republicans can’t have it both ways. Either we’re
independent or not. Either we need a political head of state or we keep
our non-political and independent one.'